Kevin's Watch

www.freerice.com/index.php

Warning: It's an ego-suck and a time waster. But it's all for a good cause.

(Somebody should tip off SRD about this site -- he'd break the rice bowl.)

I've decided to donate three bowls a day as many days as I can. Already did todays! VERY cool. Good find.

I got to 48 yesterday before RL intruded. Tonight I was down to 38.

Ah well, rice and all that. As long as the sponsors are chucking that rice where it needs to go, I can live with the humiliation.

The link isn't working for me.

I found this from another site earlier today. I donated 1000, at which point I was at level 42 (I'd been as high as 44).

Edit: just did another quick 1000. Reached level 45 at one point, but ended up back down around 42.

Heck of a lot of fun! I guess you can continue to play even if you miss? It's not like you only have three lives, right?

Yeah, you just keep going as long as you like.

Interesting. I got, briefly, up to 44.

This is fantastic. And it is quite the ego-boost. I feel really good about my vocabularly, or at least my reasoning skills when I don't instantly know the word. I hung around 40 and did 3 bowls myself. While I don't know Donaldson, it seems like he is someone who enjoys using big words, and would get a kick out of it. Someone should let him know.

Hovered around 42-43, though I seemed to get all the 'nature' type ones wrong.

*going to natural history library*

2160. Got as high as 46 (I swear it takes forever to get 47!), but most of the time around 43-44, started to get mad when I got to 41 (especially when I knew I should've got those if I'd just thought about one of the answers in a different meaning).

Wow this is a great site to enrich my vocabulary. I'm not a native speaker of English and there are enough words I fail to understand in Donaldson's (or Mieville's) work, although I can usually gather the meaning from context.

I love how much you can guess by just knowing your Indo-European language base, though.

I love how much you can guess by just knowing your Indo-European language base, though.

A smidgeon of Latin and Greek helped me more than actually knowing the words!

"Anthropophagic" was one where a little knowledge of Greek came in handy for me.

Forgive me for the boasting, but... wohoo!



And since I'm not a native speaker, that's all due to my knowledge of latin, my remembrances of greek, and Donaldson's vocabulary!

Ooh ooh fantasy helped me learn some of these.
-Cotillion
-Sylvan
-renascent (nascent from SRD, and erikson for that matter)
-Coda (I think they got this wrong - could be wrong but I thoguht coda was more an epilogue than a climax or finale).
-Forfend

Weirdest word i got was "sesequilipedian" or something. I guessed it right - means to use long words lol.

My favorite was picaroon, another word for pirate (guessed right).

Xar wrote:Forgive me for the boasting, but... wohoo!



And since I'm not a native speaker, that's all due to my knowledge of latin, my remembrances of greek, and Donaldson's vocabulary!

Dayum. I never got near 50.

You are officially a smart person in my book. That site is no joke.

*nod*

Hyperception would get to level 50 for about four or five words, and then slip back down to 47 (I have a screen shot of one of the level 50 words). But Xar has him beat.

Yeah...second language. Good one.

--A

That's a lot of fun, I hope they really are sending out the rice. I think reading Donaldson has expanded my own vocabulary considerably!